Re: Possible bug in readlink, canonicalize fails.

2007-09-21 Thread Andreas Schwab
mpb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # Create 3 symbolic links inside those directories. ln -s a1/a2 /tmp/a0/a2 ln -s /tmp/a0/a2/b3 /tmp/c0/b3 ln -s /tmp/a0/a2/a3/a4/a5 /tmp/c0/b3/b4/a5 The problem is that we are crossing the /tmp/a0/a2 symlink twice, so canonicalize_filename_mode thinks

Re: Possible bug in readlink, canonicalize fails.

2007-09-21 Thread Jim Meyering
mpb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the following script demonstrates that readlink cannot always canonicalize paths. It may be possible to create a simpler demonstration of the bug, but I could not trivially do so. Thanks for the report and the nice test case. I have code that's a work in